An interesting book, set in England shortly after the first world war, full of fascinating characters. Evelyn Gifford, a woman lawyer when such a thing was unheard of, deals with two cases: a mother who has lost her children and is fighting to get them back before they are sent to Canada by the foundling home where she left them, and a former soldier who is accused of having killed his young bride. Meredith, mother of Edmund, son of Evelyn's brother, is a complicated gal. Evelyn's mother and aunt are part of a generation hoping the freeze the world pre-war. The other players in the legal setting are interesting, too: Breen, who makes me hope for a series, Nicholas Thorne, the love interest, Wolf the lazy bum, and the judges who hate women lawyers. Sadly, the book was slow moving to a painful extent.
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